News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-04-14
HYDE PARK.

- Iue deaGn or MIS-. Wards mother.
Very appropriate Easter service
L were held at the church last Sunda
) morning, and in the afternoon tn
Sabbath school gave an Easter concert
The floral decorations were very nice
Heman Thompson came to the vilag
: MoLday with straw hat on-the frs
of tie season. He came in on foo
and says "when you see Heman walk
ing into the village you may depend
ON it that the roads are pretty bad"
Last Saturday evening was very
pleasantly spent by the choir and ;
few others at The Elms." The new
sugar and plain doughnuts were great.
| ly relished by all; the doughnuts
being particularly attractive to the
school-master.
While sliding on the crust last
Thursday Earnest Lutes ran into a,
ditch and dislocated his left shoulde.
which will necessitate confinement to
the house for a time. Earnest is u
very industrious young man, and this
accident is a severe setback to him,
coming at this busy time of the year
The indexes of the county court are
completed and have been placed in the
Clerks office. They cover all the cases
both civil and criminal entered in the
county and supreme courts, and also
the court of chancery from 1886 to
1886. They fill three large volumes,
and are carefully compiled and well
bound.
County Court convenes Tuesday,.
April 26th, Judge Taft will preside.
There are seventeen cases on the Jury
calendar, of which it is thought but
three or four will come to trial. Fol-
lowing is the list of Jurors drawn
Belvidere, Henry Coburn Cambridge,
Frank Powell, John d. Hitchcock, E.
&. Ellsworth, Martin Ellsworth Eden,
Martin Shattuck, Augustus D. Rob-
bins; Elmore, W. E. Colby, Herbert
Delano Hyde Park, Noyes G. Wood,
Benjamin n. Gates, Darius F. Eel
cher, Elbridge D. Sherwin johnson.
Silas A. Griswold, V. A. Patch, Chas.
P. Jones, Jed A. Pearl; Morristown,
Frank Robinson, Frank Halves, Oscar
Sherwin, Charles Rand, Geo. E.
Town; Stowe, G. P. Scribner, A. II.
Cheney, Henry Sargent, o. J. Ben
son, N. R. Raymond; WaterviIle,
Samuel c. Pierce; Wolcott, Chas.
Lawrence, A. II. Keller, C. A. Web
s1er.
The many friends of MorilIo Moves,
Esq. in this, his native town, (irre-
spectlve of party politiCs) will be
pleased to learn of his promotion from
chief of the division of p. o. supplies
at Washington, 10 that of chief of the
bond division in the same department.
Mr.. Noyes is in every respect well it.
ted for the position and worthy of the
promotion. The Montpelier argus
speaks as follows concerning the APP
pOintment: "Our old friend, Morillo
Moves, for years popular merchant
at Burlington, and always one of the
old Democratic guard of Vermont, was
early in the course of the present
administration appointed Chief of the
division of supplies of the post-office
department at Washington. So faith
fully has he performed the duties of
that Office that now he has been pro-
NOTED to be Chief of the bond division
Of the same department. Mr.. Noyes
has made himself very popular at
and is regarded by all
officials as a man of eXcep ional abili-
y and unimpeachable integrity"
The following are some of the facts
md figures contained in the State re-
port of our Town Superintendent -
school has been taught the past
year in each of our fifteen school
houses. The whole number of terms
or all the schools in town is thirty-siX,
aggregating ,946 days; the aggregate
total attendance, 39,199. During the
past year 489 different scholars have
attended our public schools. The en-
tire income for the year for school
purposes is S3,185.70. OF this sum
81, 174.05 was raised by district taxes
S67S OF by town taxes. We received
SAC from rent of lands, and $287.63
from all other sources. Teachers
wages, including board, amounted to
50, 739 %; fuel, S165.95; repairs,
S175.27; new buildings, S230.75;
S57.84 furniture, S32 IS.
Whole amount expended, So, 402.64.
Twenty five different female and seven
different male teachers have been en-
ployed. Fourteen of our teachers
finished their education at the Lamoile
Central Academy seven at the PeO-
Piles Academy; six at the Johnson
Normal School; four at our district
schools; and one at the U. V. M.
SUGARED OFF.-Lorenzo Calkins
has purchased the place belonging to
the late Fannie Crowell, at Center
vile. will Bailey is improving his new
purchase (the Wilson place } by
re-shingling, clapboarding, &c.-Jay
Ward is home from St. Johnsbury for
a weeks vacation.-This is wonder
full spring.-Arbutus picnics are near
ly due.-Tramps "around the horn "
are very fashionable just now, and a
great many take this method of getting |
a sniff of the bracing spring air. Try |
it.-Sunday was one Of the loveliest
of spring days, bright with the prom
Uses of coming summer; the warm
sunshine lowered the snow consider
ably, causing the roads in many places
to be fiooded.-The shock of the eX
plosion of the powder works at Platts-
burg was felt in this place Sunday
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS dogs have
been licensed thus far this year.
States Attorney Parker is at his home
in Cambridge very sick with infamma-
ton of the bowels Williams
has gone to Nashua, N. H., to work.
Mrs. Earnest Lutes is in quite poor
health.-F. E. Sawyer and Geo. Par
ker are carrying on Samuel Wiswelrs
sugar place.-The insurance firm of
Mcfarland & HuIburd will dissolve
May lst.
GREEN RIvER.-The Sunday school
gave an Easter concert Sunday after
noon, which was we'll attended and
very interesting and Mrs. Levi
Jacobs are rejoicing over boy born
April 6th.-William G. Bundy died
Sunday morning, after a long illness.
The funeral wss held Tuesday.
STRONG VS.. Manifold.